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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tres·pass v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trespassed p. pr. & vb. n. Trespassing.]
 1. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. [Obs.]
    Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce . . . trespassed out of this uncertain world.   --Ld. Berners.
 2. Law To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
 3. To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.
 4. To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.
    In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord.   --2 Chron. xxviii. 22.